Oscar Wilde Quotes
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.